Cooking Pot, Bar Hill, Antonine Wall3D ModelNoAI
A copper cooking pot with a handle of twisted iron wire, found in the outer ditch, in the south east corner of Bar Hill Fort, Twechar. The rim diameter is 11.5cm and the pot is 12.5cm high. Pots such as these would have been suspended over open fires and used to prepare communal meals, as Roman soldiers were expected to cook for themselves.
The Antonine Wall stretched right across Scotland, from the Clyde to the Forth. Constructed around 142 AD, and occupied for only 20 years, the remains of its ramparts, steep ditches, forts and bathhouses are still visible today. Since 2008, it has been part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
More information on the World Heritage Site is available on www.antoninewall.org
Reference: F.1936.172
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
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